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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Unions started declining in power, prestige etc in the 50s due to resistance from capital, union leaders being corrupted by being paid off etc. During the 50s-70s High Finance, through the CIA's cultural/social engineering programs, such as the New Left, Civil Rights, Hippie stuff etc etc created a right that was all about bootstrapping (this came through fully in the 80s) and a left that totally abandoned the working class due to the influence of the New Left and all their new bourgeois lifestyle interests.

Watch 'Century of the Self' by Adam Curtis to get an introduction to this.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

1972 is actually the pivotal year in the US. It's the last time NASA went to the Moon. It's when the financialization of the economy begins. It's when women start flooding the labor market. It's when wages for workers start stagnating. It's when the birth rate dips below replacement level for the first time. And it's when The Limits to Growth gets published.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some of this surely must be due to Hart-Celler

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Absolutely, diversity is one of the biggest factors in destroying worker solidarity and cooperation

[–]Nasser[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe, if they were taking in massive influxes, the act went into force in 1968, idk if the demographic impact was felt.